Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-09

UT dD1p Will make more TO Hiu w i"N9 :"
t1o way OF improvements this summer
than she did last.
James H. Paine urges that Florida, the
Bahamas, the West Indies and Mexico
be represented ia the proposed SUD-
tropical exposition.
Orlando Lodge No. 50, +. and A. NJ, at
its meeting next Tuesday night, Will re-
ceive an official visit from the Dlstrlct
Deputy Grand Master.
In building the kedney block at the
corner OF Orange and Central avenues
at Orlando, $40, 600 brick and 100000 feet
Of lumber have been used.
During the three months ending April
/, there were sold at the DeLand post
office stamps, stamped envelopes. postal
cards. ETC., amounting to $1,0l9 "a.
Slemmons Il Taylor will erect 2jx7O
two-stOry business mouse, with an orna-
mental front, west of the South Florida
railroad on Church street, at Orlando.
Sergt. Pennywitt has received legal
notification that the signal office at san
lord Will be closed at an early date, ana
thai the office will be removed to Titus
vile on the indian river.
AT Mt. Pleasant DR.. White is analyzing
the waller of the spring which, he says,
j. good Tor kidney disease. He says that
take hold Of it and fix 1t up.
Burglars are getting pretty bold in
Palatka just now. and several attempts
were made during the past week to enter
private residences. The last effort made
vas to enter Hon. r. W. Davis residence
a night or two ago. The tnief worked
very patiently with his knife and cut the
lock Of the back door OUT, but the bolts on
the inside held the door firmly and he was
unable to gain admittance.
Rosa Raines, young married woman,
servant in the employ Of Capt. J. Palmer,
at Monticello, one night last week while
on the platform between the house and
the kitchen with a lighted kerosene lamp
in her hand, dropped the lamp and the oil
ignited, setting fire to her clothes. This
alarmed her and she started on a run,
screaming at every jump. She was finally
run down and the flames extinguisued.
She was severely burned but is recover
ing.
The fourth annual meeting Of the State
| Dental Association met at the rooms OF
| DR.. w. w. Estes in Palatka Wednesday
afternoon at 2 O'Clock, about twenty-five
members being present. DR.. Frink, OF
Jasper, is the president and DR.. Duff
Post, OF Tampa, Is secretary. A great
| deal of business was transacted, which il
the profession. Fourteen new members
were elected, and other applications were
received.
A negro brute committed a nameless
| outrage upon the person of a white won.
an at Dade City, on the South Florida
railroad, Tuesday morning. Search.
ing parties were Immediately organized
and the negro was caught about
O'Clock in the evening. The dead body
OF the negro, hanging in plain view of the
railroad, near the scene Of the crime, told
the just tate that had been melted out Ia
him. The name Of the negro could not
be learned.
Mai. J. E. Il. Bowden, of La Villa, haV-
Ing become cogni2aut of the congregarin2
In that town Of lewd women, and OF the
brawls occasiOned in their houses. be-
came thoroughly disgusted Thursday
morning with additional complaints and
issued orders to his Chief OF Police to 20
to each house and notify the inmates tina.
they must vacate and get beyond the cor.
porate limits of that town within twenty.
four hours. These characters, when or.
dered to leave Jacksonville, take up theiI
beds and walk into La Villa and begin tC
annoy all decent people there by theil
rows and drunkenness.
AT Mt. Pleasant some weeks ago
]
who Is named Crooins, arrested, charg
ing him with forcing her to live with him
as his wife, and claimed that he was the
father OF her unborn child. On Monday
the girl gave birth to white child with
straight hair. The child died soon after
It's birth, and it is now stated that the
father of her child was a white man,
and that he hired the girl and an
old woman to swear that the child was
~ IL %, 1.
10 regard to the girls father. Crooins
tears the name of a good, hard working
man.
Grading has commenced on the Orlau.
do and Winter Park railway, material
has been purchased, and IL the citizens
will unite in aiding this most important
feeder TO the city, in the matter of right
OF way and terminal facilities, its neaI
completion may be confidently looked for
The Orlando and Winter Park railway i
local enterprise. The line of the road il
10 be along the shores of the beautiful
lakes between the two points. and car
/ hardly fail to be crowded with tourists
during the season. in addition to its regu.
| lar traffic. Ii is also designed to run ex,
cursiOns in the summer months, In con,
nection with steam yachts on the lakes
picnics, moonlight boating, etc.
Palatka is infested by a crowd of petty
thieves, VINO are as bold as any that have
ever been in that city. They have secured
but little booty SO Iar, but by prowling
around houses and trying doors and win
dows they frighten women and children
nearly out of their wits. Tuesday night
| they broke the window of &. +. Sulz.
ner's store aud got $50 or $50 worth O
| watches and other goods. Sunday nlgn
a negro was detected trying to enter The
house of MIR. +. ID. Alderman, and the
week previous several private residence,
were visited, among them the house o
the News reporter. Tuesday night they
made another effort to enter this las
mentioned house.
| Elliot Key Is situated about 125 milei
UP the coast, a little to the north OF KEY
J Largo. Quite a number OF farmers have
! located there, principally among whom
were Henry Filler aud Arthur Higgs
| Their farms were but short distance
! apart and consequently they wer,
! in the habit OF paying eacl
other social visits about once
month. " hll9 returning from one OF
these visits last Thursday week Arthur
! HiQgs ana tour Of his children met Q
watery grave. The distance being short
they were accustomed to embark in
small boat, A squall sprung up, sud.
den iibe, and he and his family were IL
the water. All were drowned except tht
wife, who managed 10 Goat to shore aud
gave the alarm. The bodies were tounC
and buried the next day.